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Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';'
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Tim Cross |
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Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';' |
Date: |
Wed, 16 Feb 2022 11:03:06 +1100 |
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mu4e 1.7.7; emacs 28.0.91 |
Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>> From: Po Lu <luangruo@yahoo.com>
>> Cc: emacs-devel@gnu.org, raman@google.com
>> Date: Tue, 15 Feb 2022 22:03:36 +0800
>>
>> Eli Zaretskii <eliz@gnu.org> writes:
>>
>> > IMNSHO, not explicitly enough:
>> >
>> > ** Emacs now supports being built with pure GTK.
>> > To use this option, make sure the GTK 3 and Cairo development files
>> > are installed, and configure Emacs with the option '--with-pgtk'.
>> > Unlike the default X and GTK build, the resulting Emacs binary will
>> > work on any underlying window system supported by GDK, such as
>> > Wayland and Broadway.
>> >
>> > No matter how many times I re-read this, I fail to understand that it
>> > tells me not to use it on X, and it definitely doesn't warn me of any
>> > downsides if I do. A word of warning is definitely in order there.
>>
>> How about "the resulting Emacs binary is supposed to work with window
>> systems other than X that are supported by GDK, such as Wayland and
>> Broadway"?
>
> I'd suggest something more explicit, like
>
> We do not recommend that you use this configuration, unless you are
> running a window system that's supported by GDK, such as Wayland or
> Broadway. Running this configuration on X is known to have
> problems, like ...
>
> (describe a couple of problems instead of the ellipsis).
Yes, I think it needs to be this explicit. The suggested entgry from Po
Lu is still too oblique and fails to be explicit about known issues.
Something also seems "wrong" with a statement which includes "is
supposed to work".
- with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', T.V Raman, 2022/02/14
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/14
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Eli Zaretskii, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';',
Tim Cross <=
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tim Cross, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', T.V Raman, 2022/02/15
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tim Cross, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tassilo Horn, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tassilo Horn, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Po Lu, 2022/02/16
- Re: with-pgtk: C-; turns into plain ';', Tassilo Horn, 2022/02/16